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A bevy of identically worded UK carrier announcements has emerged in the wake of Apple’s statement about the iPad’s delayed international release. The good news is that you’ll be able to take your pick from O2, Orange or Vodafone, though the bad news, by the sound of their robotic PR, is that there probably won’t be too much price differentiation in their eventual offerings. Naturally, we’ll have to keep waiting until at least the May 10th pre-order date to find out how much an iPad will set us back with either of them. Concurrent with its UK announcement, Orange has revealed it’ll also offer iPad plans in Switzerland, France and Spain, while Vodafone adds Germany, Italy, Spain and Australia. We’ve also heard from an insider at O2 that the network operator will not itself stock the iPad, with only Apple’s retail, web and “authorised dealers” offering the device for purchase.

[Thanks, Rob and anonymous O2 tipster]

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iPad will have ‘dedicated tariffs’ on O2 UK, Orange and Vodafone also doing Western Europe and Australia originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Uh oh. Looks like all that US popularity has taken Apple by surprise and the European arrival for the iPad will be shifted back from the earlier promised “late April” to the end of May. Citing more than 500,000 tablets sold in the first week of American availability, the Cupertino brain trust urges its international audience to look forward to May 10, which is when availability and pricing for the rest of the world will be specified.

Update: Rogers has come forward and confessed that it’ll be offering the 3G iPad “from the end of May in Canada,” though it’s keeping monthly price points close to the chest for now.

iPad international launch delayed until the end of May originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You thought $500 to start for a silly tablet was bad? How about another $410 to get the thing in some other color than raw aluminum? Yes indeed, ColorWare is at it again, this time dunking the back of iPads into giant vats of Technicolor dreams — or nightmares, depending on what combination of hues you choose. You can make your own design, with separate colors for the back, logo, and home button, but there’s no escaping that $410 service charge — or you can pay $910 for a new, painted 16GB model. The 64GB model is a whopping $1110, but the inspirational promo video after the break is entirely free.

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iPad gets ColorWare’d, your retinas and savings may never recover (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You’re looking at Super Mario Kart, running on the Apple iPad, courtesy of emulation guru ZodTTD. When do you get to play it, faithful reader? Hard to tell. If, say, the iPad had already been jailbroken, all you’d need to do is wait for a suitably safe jailbreak method, download RockApp or Cydia, grab the snes4iphone emulator you see running above, and fire up the ROM. However, the intriguing thing about the above video is not that it’s running an SNES game — but that ZodTTD claims he compiled a special version of his snes4iphone emulator “specifically for non-jailbroken iDevices.” Since Zod is almost certainly an official developer, it’s possible he output the emulator as an .ipa file and is testing it on a fresh iPad using Apple developer tools, but if we’re lucky, it could instead mean that someone has finally found a way to sideload apps onto a stock Apple device. Either way, peep multitouch karts sliding and shells flying on video, right after the break.

Update: ZodTTD tells us that while he does have access to the jailbreak, he did have to flex developer muscle (and official dev tools) to make snes4iphone work on a non-jailbroken iPad. He says:

The build of snes4iphone running on my iPad as seen in the video was actually based on an AppStore app I submitted called “snesty”. Apple quickly rejected it right after pulling the NES emulator. I combined snesty with some snes4iphone features such as using the private API called CoreSurface. I used Apple developer tools and self signed it.

Zod says that after Apple officially releases iPhone OS 4.0 and the existing jailbreak is distributed freely, he plans to create new versions of his emulators that run at the iPad’s 1024 x 768 native resolution and support touchscreen controls, hardware keyboards and even external controllers should they come.

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SNES Mario Kart power slides onto (non-jailbroken) iPad? (Update) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We totally would have had this roundup done earlier, but we were just way too busy watching TV on our iPads. Let’s face it, as fun as those social networking and gaming applications are (sorry, utility apps — no fun for you!) sometimes you just want to sit back, rest those fingers and soak in some drama. The iPad’s 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768-resolution screen certainly looks nice when reading books and browsing the web, but you haven’t seen anything until you get some HD content playing. Though we may never get over the fact that we can’t watch Flash video in the browser, the following apps are just what the doctor ordered to ease the pain and turn Apple’s tablet into a portable media viewing machine. What are you waiting for? Hop on past the break already, and then kindly let us know if you’ve come up with a good way to prop up the iPad so you can watch all that video goodness while laying down.

Continue reading iPad apps: video for the well-rounded couch potato

iPad apps: video for the well-rounded couch potato originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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